 | John Beebe - 1992 - 200 pages
...Integrity and Gender 70 Chapter 4. Working on Integrity 99 Epilogue 125 Notes 127 Index 155 Foreword Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your...yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. — EMERSON JOHN BEEBE has successfully carried out an immense task of understanding one of the most... | |
 | Douglas Robinson - 1994 - 340 pages
...constant counterpressure. "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," Emerson says. "Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world" ("SelfReliance" 50). But if integrity is sacred, it is also taboo: work to absolve yourself so that... | |
 | Sanford Budick - 1996 - 372 pages
...than Emerson. Emerson writes in "Self-Reliance": Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. ... If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that pass? If any angry bigot assumes... | |
 | David Edwards - 1996 - 260 pages
...be real; only from this aim can virtuous lives and behaviour arise. As Emerson said so well: 'He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.' 25 Like the Eastern sages, our society needs to grow out of its adolescent experimentation with inadequate... | |
 | Charles Horton Cooley - 1998 - 284 pages
...Emerson offers his calm, clear, and unmistakable counsel of self-reliance. "Trust thyself." "Whoso would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...name of goodness but must explore if it be goodness." He does not say "follow your own instincts unless they seem to conflict with what the world recognizes... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 pages
...toward nature. Since "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," people should "absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world." Emerson continues... "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. I remember an... | |
 | Wanda H. Ball, Pam Brewer - 2000 - 182 pages
...realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.... A foolish consistency... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...Emerson continues to characterize as "integrity": "Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" (E, 261). In general Emerson plays on two senses of "integrity"—that of bodily integrity, in which... | |
 | Richard Schacht - 2001 - 292 pages
...Nietzsche [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979], p. 116). 77. Emerson: "Whoso would be a man . . . must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness" (Essays and Lectures, p. 261). 78. Beyond Good and Evil, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage,... | |
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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. 
